Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 10:32     Subject: Re:Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:Hypothetical.......
Hillary runs in 2020.
The Trump administration has evidence of her campaign colluding with a foreign government.
Would you also say that it is appropriate to investigate her campaign?


Absolutely. Any campaign colluding with a foreign government should be investigated. Country before party!
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 10:30     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:This is sort reminiscent of J Edgar Hoover.


This.

Obama was meddling the democratic process. He is a hypocrite accusing Russians interfering our election but at the same time doing the exact same thing.

Why did his administration ask for the wiretapping of Trump's communication in the first place?

So many unanswered question ... Was there an approved warrant to tap Mike Flynn's phone? Who else on the trump team were the government listening to their communications?

If Paul Ryan has any spine, he should call for an investigation into Obama administration's meddling of our democratic process.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 10:26     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:In June of 2016, the Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.

In October, the Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.

Is this an appropriate use of presidential power?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/03/03/mark_levin_the_real_scandal_is_that_obama_spied_on_trump_during_2016_campaign.html

Snowball!
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 10:14     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Buried in that WaPo article the other day was that intelligence had listened in on conversations in the Kremlin between Russians regarding discussions they had with specific members of the Trump team. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 10:14     Subject: Re:Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trump has lost it

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

So now we know: Donald was one of the two FISA warrant targets. Nicely done, Republicans. You ran/elected the most corrupt person in the history of the US.


How did Donald find out that they were tapping their phones? Did someone leak it to him?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 10:11     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is sort reminiscent of J Edgar Hoover.

How so, the warrant was issued because of the private server in trump tower linked to two Russian banks. That is not an abuse of power.


+1
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:42     Subject: Re:Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Lol!



David Frum? @davidfrum
For the Kushner family, a Shabbat to remember.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:41     Subject: Re:Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:Maybe someone should explain how FISA warrants work and how you have to have basis for one. Judges dont grant a FISA warrant without serious need or evidence.


To add

1. It was approved by the FISA court in October
2. That makes it legal
3. The request came from FBI
4. Therefore it was Comey who ordered it
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:39     Subject: Re:Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Maybe someone should explain how FISA warrants work and how you have to have basis for one. Judges dont grant a FISA warrant without serious need or evidence.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:23     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:This is sort reminiscent of J Edgar Hoover.

How so, the warrant was issued because of the private server in trump tower linked to two Russian banks. That is not an abuse of power.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:19     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
This is sort reminiscent of J Edgar Hoover.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:10     Subject: Re:Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:Trump has lost it

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.

Donald J. Trump? @realDonaldTrump
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

So now we know: Donald was one of the two FISA warrant targets. Nicely done, Republicans. You ran/elected the most corrupt person in the history of the US.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:06     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Also this is making me crazy--- a fact you don't like is not a "leak", it's just a fact you don't like.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:05     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The GOP and Trump Supporters are upset about the investigation but not the fact that he is compromised.


Here is the thing........ there is no - ZERO - evidence to support your statement.


So if they are totally innocent, they should support an investigation to clear their name.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2017 08:04     Subject: Was it appropriate for Obama to actively investigate presidential campaign during election
Anonymous wrote:The GOP and Trump Supporters are upset about the investigation but not the fact that he is compromised.


Just like how they are upset about his staffers leaking, as opposed to the content of the leaks.